How Does the Rare Earth Answer Explain Fermi's Paradox?
The rare earth answer suggests earth just happens to be an exceptionally favorable combination of environmental factors. The emergence of life was a rare phenomenon. Life emergence is rarer than we think. We cannot really fathom if there were other super intelligences out there.
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